"serendipity" meaning in Engels

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Noun

IPA: /ˌsɛrənˈdɪpɪtɪ/
  1. serendipiteit, speurzin (voor toevalstreffer)
    Sense id: nl-serendipity-en-noun-KglZww~G
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: serendipitous, serendipitously
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Engels dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-24 from the nlwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-20 using wiktextract (813e02a and ea19a0a). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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